Johnny Tootall is a 2005 television film written and directed by Shirley Cheechoo.Laura Stevens, "Johnny Tootall to receive wider audience". Ontario Birchbark, Vol. 5 No. 6 (2006). The film stars Adam Beach as the titular Johnny Tootall, a young First Nations man who joins the Canadian army to fight in the Bosnian War, in a bid to avoid the responsibility of taking on the role of hereditary chief of his community.
The film was shot around Vancouver Island, British Columbia with the Ahousaht Nations people.Peter Rusland, "Native flick filming at the Bay". Cowichan News Leader, September 15, 2004.
It won "Best Film" honors at the 2005 American Indian Film Festival."SF Chronicle: ‘Johnny Tootall,’ ‘Trudell,’ ‘Hank Williams First Nation’ take Indian festival awards". IndieWire, November 19, 2005.
Cast Adam Beach as Johnny Tootall Nathaniel Arcand as RT Alex Rice as Serena Sheila Tousey as Agnes (as Sheila May Tousey) Ben Cotton as Henry Miranda Frigon as Luke Shawn Reis as Lloyd Randi Knighton as Tiffany Jazmine Charleson as Dancer 1 Shyanne Samuel as Dancer 2 Kathleen Ambrose as Dancer 3 Francine Charleson as Dancer 4
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